From the Ground Up：How Land Trusts and Conservancies Are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

James N. Levitt and Chandni Navalkha

The latest report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies Are Providing Solutions to Climate Change, documents how land conservation organizations are developing and implementing creative, nature-based strategies to adapt to and mitigate the magnitude and impacts of a changing climate for people and for biodiversity. It profiles initiatives from Australia, China, Germany, and the United States - as well as partnerships in Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East - that are exemplary cases of how land conservation organizations are acting with speed and at all scales to conserve land, protect water supplies, manage stormwater and sea-level rise, maintain biodiversity, site renewable energy, and store carbon.

This report—written by James Levitt, a global expert and educator in land conservation, and Chandni Navalkha, an international leader in sustainable management of land and water resources—offers numerous case examples of successful initiatives along with the following guidance for stakeholders in the private and public sectors looking to boost the potential of civic organizations to implement natural climate solutions:

• Empower civic-sector initiatives that are creative and ambitious in scope and scale.

• Invest in initiatives with  clear strategies and measurable impact.

• Aim for broad  collaborations.

• Share advanced science,  technologies, and financial engineering techniques.

• Support initiatives that are built to last, able to adapt, and ready to replicate.